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protag

protag is the clipping of protagonist.

Meaning of protagonist

Noun

protagonist (plural protagonists)

  1. The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
    Antonyms:
    antagonist
  2. A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
  3. (proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
    • It was toward the end of the sixteenth century that the communities in Venice, Mantua, Ferrara, Padua, and Casale Monferrato, inspired by the Renaissance music, wanted to introduce some modernization into the service. The greatest protagonist of the idea was the encyclopedic Jewish scholar Leon of...1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 198

Synonyms of protag

Antonyms

Forms of protag

pluralprotags

Questions about protag

What is protag the clipping of?
Protag is the clipping of protagonist.

Words near protag in the dictionary

  1. protactic
  2. ProTactile
  3. protactinate
  4. protactinates
  5. protactinium
  6. protag
  7. protagon
  8. protagonism
  9. protagonist
  10. protagonistic
  11. protagonistically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: protag (page history and authors); protagonist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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